Ancient Egyptian mummies were an important aspect of archaeology and defined the field in many ways. The excitement of a dinosaur fossil was parallel to the intriguing revelation of a wrapped mummy.

The Cox mummy’s journey to the Smithsonian began in Luxor, across the Nile from the Valley of the Kings, a place of powerful symbolic importance where pharaohs such as Tutankhamen were entombed.

The mummified woman was believed to have died during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt - and the cause of death ...

The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. When Howard Carter opened a small hole to peer ...

The enigma of a 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been frozen in ... the reign of Queen Hatshepsut (1479 – 1458BC) in Luxor, Egypt, the cause of her death remains a mystery, but ...

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a collection of statues found beneath the Temple of Luxor; and two royal mummies. You'll also find videos that demonstrate the process of making papyrus sheets and how to write hieroglyphs.

She had been the mistress of a great house in Thebes, now called Luxor, which was an important town with a large cemetery where the mummy was buried. Takabuti's father, called Nespare, was a ...

Nesyamun was a priest at the temple of Amun in the Karnak complex at Thebes (modern day Luxor).Nesyamun was a ... Nesyamun is very important as the only Mummy to have been dated to this period ...